January 6
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January 6
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January is: January Diet Month
Born on this Day
1367: King Richard II of England
1412: St. Joan
of Arc, Domremy, French martyr
1425: Henry IV "The Impotent" King of Castile
1811: Charles Sumner, leading anti-slavery senator.
1822: Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the ruins of
ancient Troy
1838: The composer Max Bruch was born in Cologne. his twenties he became
known in Britain as a rousing choral composer. 1866, he composed the first of three Violin
Concertos.
1878: Poet Carl Sandburg
1880: Silent movie cowboy star Tom Mix
1882: Samuel Rayburn, Speaker of the House (1940 - 1957)
1911: Comedian Joey Adams
1913: Actress (Gretchen) Loretta Young
1921: Pollster Louis Harris
1924: Bluegrass performer Earl Scruggs
1925: Former automaker John Z. DeLorean
1931: Author E.L. Doctorow.
1937: Singer Doris Troy
1943: Actress Bonnie Franklin
1951: Rock singer-musician Kim Wilson (The Fabulous Thunderbirds)
1953: Rock musician Malcolm Young (AC-DC)
1953: Singer Jett Williams
1954: Movie director Anthony Minghella ("The English Patient")
1955: Actor-comedian Rowan Atkinso
1957: Golfer Nancy Lopez
1960: Rhythm-and-blues singer Eric Williams (BLACKstreet)
1962: Rock musician Michael Houser (Widespread Panic)
1968: Movie director John Singleton
1976: Actor Danny Pintauro ("Who's the Boss?")
1066: Coronation of Harold II (Godwinson) as King of
England
1286: Formal Coronation of Philip IV, "the
Fair," King of France
1311: King Henry VII of Germany crowned King of the
Lombards
1352: Jean II, King of France, founds the Order of the
Star
1355: Charles IV crowned King of the Lombards
1373: Death of St. Andrew Corsini
1400: A conspiracy attempts the murder of Henry IV of
England and his family
1401: Rupert crowned King of Germany
1449: Constantine XI becomes Emperor of Byzantium
1496: Moorish fortress Alhambra, near Grenada, surrenders
to the Christians
1540: England's King Henry the Eighth married his fourth
wife, Anne of Cleves. (The marriage lasted about six months.)
1639: Virginia becomes 1st colony to order surplus crops
(tobacco) destroyed
1735: The finale of Bach's "Christmas Oratorio"
was performed in Leipzig.
1759: George Washington married widow Martha Dandridge
Custis.
1838: Morristown, N.J., Samuel F.B. Morse and his partner,
Alfred Vail, publicly demonstrated their new invention, the telegraph, for the first time.
1861: Governor of Maryland sends a message to the people
of Maryland, strongly opposing Maryland’s secession from the Union.
1896: The first, American, women's six-day bicycle race
was held at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
1910: Union leaders ask President Taft to investigate U.S.
Steel practices.
1912: New Mexico becomes the 47th U.S. state.
1914: Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded.
1919: The 26th president of the United States, Theodore
Roosevelt, died in Oyster Bay, New York, at age 60.
1930: The first, diesel engine automobile trip was
completed. It ran 792 miles -- from Indianapolis, IN to New York City.
1936: The U.S. Supreme Court rules the Agricultural
Adjustment Act unconstitutional.
1937: The U.S. bans the shipment of arms to war-torn
Spain.
1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt asks Congress to
support the lend-lease plan to help supply the Allies.
1941: Alice Marble made her professional tennis debut by
defeating Ruth Hardwick of Great Britain at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
1942: The Pan American Airways "Pacific Clipper"
arrived in New York after making the first round-the-world trip by a commercial airplane.
1945: George Herbert Walker Bush married Barbara Pierce in
Rye, New York.
1946: Ho Chi Minh wins North Vietnamese elections.
1950: Britain formally recognized the communist government
of China.
1952: A regular feature of Sunday funny papers debuted, as
"Peanuts" was seen above the fold in newspapers across the country. The most
successful syndicated comic strip in history, by Charles Schulz, continues to be a most
popular feature worldwide.
1966: Duke Ellington's concert of sacred music, recorded
at 5th Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City, was broadcast on CBS-TV.
1967: US Marines and South Vietnamese troops launched
Operation "Deckhouse Five," an offensive in the Mekong River delta.
1975: The Broadway premiere of "The Wiz" opened,
receiving enthusiastic reviews. The show, a black version of "The Wizard of Oz"
ran for 1,672 shows at the Majestic Theatre.
1984: The 100th Congress convened with Democrats
controlling both the houses of Congress.
1984: The first test-tube quadruplets, all boys, were born
in Melbourne, Australia.
1987: Members of the U.S. Senate voted 88-4 to establish
an 11-member panel to hold public hearings on the Iran-Contra affair.
1987: Astronomers report sighting a new galaxy 12 billion
light years away.
1988: Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze was
quoted by the Afghan news agency as saying the Kremlin wanted to pull its estimated
115,000 soldiers from Afghanistan in the coming year.
1989: The United States presented photographic evidence to
the UN Security Council to justify its shootdown of two Libyan jet fighters as
self-defense, evidence the Libyan ambassador said was faked.
1990: Defense Secretary Dick Cheney told CNN the US
invasion of Panama should not be viewed as heralding a new "Bush doctrine" under
which the United States would be inclined to intervene militarily in countries where
democratic elections had been subverted.
1991: Federal regulators seized banks owned by Bank of New England Corporation in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Maine.
1991: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a television address, told his country to prepare for a long war against what he called "tyranny represented by the United States."
1992: The United States joined the U.N. Security Council
in condemning Israel's planned deportation of 12 Palestinians.
1992: After two weeks of fighting, ousted Georgian
President Zviad Gamsakhurdia fled the capital, Tbilisi.
1992: The Food and Drug Administration called on surgeons
to stop using silicone gel breast implants because of safety questions, but stopped short
of an outright ban.
1993: Ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev died in Paris at age 54
1993: Joshua Bell played the Sibelius Violin Concerto with
the Boston Symphony under guest-conductor Yuri Temirkanov.
1993: Jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie died in Englewood,
New Jersey, at age 75.
1993: Authorities rescued Jennifer Stolpa and her infant
son, Clayton, after Mrs. Stolpa's husband, James, succeeded in reaching help following the
family's eight-day ordeal in the snow-covered Nevada desert.
1994: Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the
right leg by an assailant at Cobo Arena in Detroit; four men, including Jeff Gillooly, the
ex-husband of Kerrigan's rival, Tonya Harding, were later sentenced to prison for their
roles in the attack; Harding, who denied advance knowledge of the attack, received
probation after pleading guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution.
1994: President Clinton's mother, Virginia Kelley, died in
Hot Springs, Arkansas, at age 70.
1995: Over the protests of refugee advocates, the US
military began sending Haitians housed at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba home against
their will.
1996: President Clinton, bowing to months of Republican
demands, offered a seven-year balanced-budget plan using Congressional Budget Office
figures.
1996: Republican candidates kicked off the 1996
presidential campaign year by shadowboxing with absent front-runner Bob Dole at a
televised debate in Columbia, South Carolina.
1997: House Speaker Newt Gingrich met behind closed doors
with Republican lawmakers, answering questions about his admitted ethics violations as he
appealed for support in the speaker's election to be held the next day.
1998: A low-cost robot explorer blasted off from Florida,
headed for a year-long mission to probe the moon for minerals and water ice. Lunar
Prospector, NASA's first moon shot since men last set foot on the moon in 1972, took off
at 9:28 p.m. EST. The spacecraft was on "a voyage to rediscover the moon,"
1998: In a new bid to expand health insurance, President
Clinton unveiled a proposal to offer Medicare coverage to hundreds of thousands of
uninsured Americans between the ages of 55 to 64. Under the plan, people aged 62 to 65
would be allowed to buy into Medicare by paying a premium of $300 per month. Once they
became eligible for Medicare at the regular age of 65, they would pay a surcharge of $10
to $20 per month for every year that they had bought into the program.
1998: The woman suing President Clinton for sexual
harassment revealed that the Treasury Department is investigating whether there was any
political pressure on the IRS to audit her tax returns. Lawyers for Paula Jones said the
Treasury's Inspector General was probing the IRS decision to audit, which came shortly
after Jones rejected an offer from White House lawyers to settle the suit out of court.
1998: The United Nations has approved an Iraqi food
distribution plan for the latest phase of its oil-for-food program, opening the way for a
resumption of limited Iraqi oil sales.
1998: Over 140 dead dolphins washed up on the coast of
Venezuela's La Tortuga island in the Caribbean. Dead or dying dolphins were still arriving
on the beach of the tiny island 19 miles from the mainland, but the cause was not known.
An environmental group said it was unlikely to be because of man-made pollution because no
other sea creatures had been affected.
1999: The 106th Congress convened with Dennis Hastert
taking over as the new House speaker.
1999: Buckingham Palace announced that Prince Edward, the
youngest son of Queen Elizabeth the Second, would marry his longtime girlfriend, public
relations executive Sophie Rhys-Jones, later in the year.
2000: Republican presidential candidates debated in Durham, New Hampshire, with such issues as taxes and gays in the military dominating the discussion.
2000: In Miami, demonstrators angered by the US government's decision to send Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba skirmished with police, with hundreds blocking intersections and cutting off access to the busy Port of Miami.
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